Antigua May Be Allowed To Violate US Copyrights 482
Skleed refers us to the NYTimes for an article on the high-stakes case the US is losing before the World Trade Organization. So far the US has lost an initial hearing and two appeals on its policies regarding Antiguan offshore gambling sites. Now the lawyer pressing the case has asked for a rarely invoked, but codified, recourse under WTO rules: letting Antiguans copy and distribute American music, movies, and software. The game may be to get Hollywood and Microsoft, et al., to pressure Washington to cut a deal. But their influence may not be sufficient to move lawmakers on the question of online gambling. From the article: "But not complying with the decision presents big problems of its own for Washington. That's because Mr. Mendel, who is claiming $3.4 billion in damages on behalf of Antigua, has asked the trade organization to grant a rare form of compensation if the American government refuses to accept the ruling: permission for Antiguans to violate intellectual property laws by allowing them to distribute copies of American music, movie and software products, among others."
Allofmp3 mark II is coming (Score:3, Funny)
In other news (Score:5, Funny)
A Beautiful Thing Coming (Score:2, Funny)
Oh hell yes (Score:5, Funny)
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And we care...why? (Score:5, Funny)
Leela: "The United States is part of the world."
Fry: "Wow, I have been gone a long time."
Thankfully, that is a transcript from the future, and America is not yet part of this "world" of which the UN speaks of
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On the other hand, all those Al Queda terrorists that are using off-shore gambling in Antigua to launder their death money might provide the Whitehouse Junta plenty of ammo to freeze Antigua's assets that are in or pass through US banking.
What are the odds? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Allowed? (Score:5, Funny)
My god, man, we're talking about pirates here! High seas battles, raped women and children, missing gold, plunder at the bottom of the sea, "arg matey" and worse!
Those cretins are almost as bad as terrorists.
Unless you want to have your next sailing trip interrupted by these cannon-toting freaks, you'd better support a war!
Re:The WTO and Health and Safety Standards (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Allofmp3 mark II is coming (Score:2, Funny)
Better not be placing that bet online!
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On the plus side, with this sort of motivation behind Hollywood they might turn out to be good movies.
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Of course you can't see them, they're Ninjas!!!
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But you can't declare war on pirates. (Score:2, Funny)
Sure, you can have the Royal Navy cruise up, let fly, and hang the bastards, but that's not war, it's merely enforcement of the law.
(Yes, I'm trying to stop people from declaring war on piracy, because it is my life's goal to steal the HMS Victory, load her with cannon, and start sinking, burning or taking a prize any ship bearing the goods of the RIAA. Come to think of it, maybe carronades would be better. No one's going to suspect the HMS Victory of shooting at them.)
(Note for Government-Sponsored RIAA spooks: No, not really. I'm joking.)
(Note for Slashdot: No I'm not. Join me, mateys! The best in provisions, 16 ounces to the pound, free tobacco, mountain dew, bawls and shipwide LAN!)
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Other than being completely wrong though, you have a point.
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Re:Allofmp3 mark II is coming (Score:1, Funny)
Have you looked around the globe lately? I've personally come to realize that EVERYONES ARE RETARDEDED.
Re:Allowed? (Score:2, Funny)
That pretty much says it all.
Thanks.
You posted nothing dick, and you're wrong again (Score:2, Funny)
And you should take your own advice cunt.
I posted a link to an analysis paper by the president of the federal reserve bank of St. Louis and two other well regarded economists. The best you could do was call it "old and poorly written", and you didn't refute a single point in it.
You posted NOTHING.
So how about you shut your idiot mouth now?
"Continuing after it's already been demonstrated is just silly."
You're right, but you decided to be a dick and attack me for proving you wrong anyway.
You lost, stop acting like a 4 year old and stamping your feet and screaming "YES HUH YES HUH!!!" when I posted proof and you posted fucking NOTHING.
Fuck off now.